Digital painting Johan Sebastiaan Ploem
meadow near sauto, pyrenees, france bas ploem started painting small boy. while still @ secondary school attended evening course in drawing , painting @ “kunstnijverheidsschool maastricht”. ploem’s presence in paris important knowledge , interest in art since regularly visit cousins in paris, painter frits klein , son yves. visited kleins when yves making first monochromes. in last years of activities @ faculty of medicine @ leiden university, concentrated on research in image analysis. asked participate in european project aim of automating cancer cell recognition using computer analysis. concerned collaborative project german optical company leitz/leica microsystems, , institute mathematical morphology in fontainebleau, france. team, professor jean serra @ institute had developed image analysis method, internationally known ‘mathematical morphology’ (mm). experience analogue painter, ploem saw possibility of applying methods of mathematical morphology creation of digital art . at int...